Protonym: Solenopsis nigella st. prevalens
Authorship Santschi, 1923c: 257
Forms s.w.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires)
Primary type information Primary type material: 4 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Argentina: La Plata (C. Bruch). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Type notes 1) Santschi indicates "La Plata" as the type locality, and informs a number not stated of workers from "Buenos-Ayres, Sierra Ventana". MZSP houses 2 W from Sierra Ventana labeled as cotype. Additionally, the Borgmeier's handwritten catalog (#3824) indicates these specimens are "Type" received from Santschi. 2) Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 159, record 5 “cotype” (= syntype) workers from Argentina: Alta Gracia, in MCZC, but this locality is not mentioned in the original description.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Solenopsis nigella prevalens Subspecies Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Solenopsis gensterblumi Forel, 1901
Original combination